The best of… March 2017

The songs that made March 2017 worthwhile.

Ginger Snaps – Numbercrunching

Number Crunching perfectly channels dissatisfaction with office jobs and corporate hairstyles without being preachy, instead opting for the quiet grumbling and lethargic loathing approach. It does this with 90s flair, sounding an awful lot like a lovechild of Beck and Harvey Danger.

Moonlight is worlds apart from the ethereal material AFTPC used to excel in, with a fuzzed up bassline and a stadium-rock styled guitar line creating an apocalyptic backdrop for the inimitable vocals of Zoe Chambers. In the run-up to the outfit’s debut album, nothing could set the tone better.

This is dreampop done right. Spacious guitars expand outwards in all directions to form a shimmering cascade of sound that, coupled with echoey vocals and loose rhythms, leaves listeners in a state of blissful tranquility.

A chilled out rap ballad with gentle instrumentation and a caring vocal delivered raspily and tenderly, with the lullaby-like electronic backdrop taking everything to the next level. Perfect, easy-listening rap.